PASSIFLORA
Table lamp designed by Superstudio
The Passiflora lighting fixture comes from a painted cardboard prototype made for the exhibition “Superarchitettura” [December 1966], a manifesto of Radical Design. The cardboard was replaced by a material transparent to light, transforming Passiflora into a truncated luminous column: a column whose deformed profile wavers between natural and artificial, in a game of allusions and ambiguities, corresponding to the statement of intent of Superstudio, summed up in the text Invention Design and Evasion Design.
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year
1967
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typology
table lamp
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dimension
30[l] x 41[w] x 29[h] cm
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weight
1.5 kg
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materials
cut and glued Perspex® and opalin tube
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colours
body white opaline
flower yellow
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bulb
1 x LED A60 E27 10W [max] 6400K
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1966 Passiflora prototype exhibited in Superarchitettura, Pistoia, Italy 1968 Eurodomus 2, Torino Esposizioni, Turin 1971 Domus Italian Design, Harrods, London 1972 Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York 2007 Superarchitettura Re—loaded, Carla Sozzani Gallery, Milan 2008 Design Parade 03 Villa Noailles, Hyères, France 2010 Biennale di Design, Palazzo dei Capitani, Ascoli Piceno, Italy / Italy / Pop Design, Filatoio di Caraglio, Cuneo, Italy 2011 Superstudio Backstage, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy 2012 Pop Art Design Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany / Pop Art Design, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark 2013 Superstudio Backstage 1966—1978, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy / Pop Art Design, Moderna Museet, Stockholm / Pop Art Design, Barbican Art Gallery, London 2015 Super Superstudio, PAC, Milan / Pop Art Design, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway 2016 Superstudio 50, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome 2017 Architettura invisibile: Un’analisi dei movimenti degli architetti Italiani e Giapponesi degli anni ’60 e ’70 e dibattito contemporaneo, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome / Superstudio: Mobili 1966–2016, Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft, Cologne / Superstudio 50, Power Station of art, Shangai / Radical Utopias. Beyond architecture: Florence 1966—1976, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence 2018 Joeuts à Jouer: Oggetti nella foresta, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Brussels / Radical Utopias. Beyond architecture: Florence 1966—1976, CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal / Vegetal House, MuMeDi Museo Mexicano del Diseño, Mexico City 2019 The Undomestic House: Architettura e abitare, Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea “Osvaldo Licini”, Ascoli Piceno, Italy / I–Made: Italian Manufacture Art & Design exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, London / Italian Design Day Superstudio and the city, Embassy of Italy and Openlab, Stockholm / Porto Design Biennale, Palácio das Artes Fundação da Juventude, Porto / Florence Biennale: Biennale Internazionale di Arte contemporanea di Firenze, Fortezza da Basso, Florence / Guardare la luna non il dito, MAC, Lissone, Italy 2020 Superstudio Migrazioni, CIVA, Brussels / Poltronova: La casa non domestica, Contemporary Cluster, Rome